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Welcome to Computex 2012, the coming-out party for Intel's Ivy Bridge CPU refresh and Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system. The two halves of an irresistible hardware-software combination that has dominated the PC world for so long that it has its own nickname — Wintel — came together in Taipei...

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Apple may be downing in the maps department, but don’t count on Google to throw the company a life jacket anytime soon. “We have not done anything yet with Google Maps,” Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt told reporters in Tokyo today when asked about the company’s iOS Maps plans. Schmidt, like most iOS...

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Rob Dyer is having his coming out party today. He joined the social gaming giant Zynga in October as head of partner publishing, and now he finally gets to tell the world what he’s been doing. Dyer is the man who must convince external game developers to publish their games...

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In case you haven't heard, a lot -- and we mean a lot -- of Windows devices are going on sale this week. Today it's ASUS' turn to give its lineup a formal coming-out party: the company is hosting a press event here in New York City, where it...

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Like any good show pony, BlackBerry 10's been trotting around the world, strutting the fairly limited elements of its known UI in an effort to court developers. The platform, without question the nail upon which RIM's fate and fortune hangs, had its big coming out party this past May...

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Berlin-based mobile app developer Toast is today pushing its social wishlist application for iOS onto the iTunes App Store. In addition, the startup is announcing that it has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from a group of angel investors including JMES (the company behind the German capital’s new...

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In the run up to the Office 15 release, Microsoft execs are talking up a key goal: Making it easy for non-Windows web developers to build add-ons and enhancements to both Office and SharePoint. This is a shift in strategy — Microsoft is trying to make Office — the company’s...

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Firefox OS is repeating the mistakes of others and hoping for a different outcome: Terrence O'Brien for Engadget: We've caught glimpses of Mozilla's smartphone offspring before, but Mobile World Congress 2013 was really the proper coming out party. Finally we've been given a chance to touch it, see it action...

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RIM’s L-Series BlackBerry 10 phone has received an early coming out party, courtesy of a Vietnamese gadget site. While yesterday’s teaser was a welcome confirmation that RIM is making progress on the device, it wasn’t particularly revealing. (Then again, how many teasers ever are?) This hands-on video is the complete opposite, and gives...